Newsletter Talisker n°2 - Mars 2009 |
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A la une : Nouvelle publication de Talisker ConsultingTalisker Consulting publie son point de vue sur le Lean Management. En parallèle, Talisker Consulting propose, sur certaines de ses offres, de mettre l’accent sur plusieurs points d’optimisation pour initier ou concrétiser une démarche Lean. |
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EditoAprès plusieurs mois où beaucoup d’entreprises se sont effrayées d’un avenir incertain, immobilisées dans les mêmes discours pessimistes et les mêmes analyses inquiétantes, toutes agissent maintenant, majoritairement de manière réactive, mais quelques-unes vont plus loin …… celles-là tout en s’adaptant aux échéances court terme se préparent aussi pour la relance … celles-là savent bien que c’est dans les conditions difficiles qu’émergent les leaders ; que le confort des périodes fastes n’a jamais poussé à se dépasser… … celles-là n’ignorent pas que le beau temps lisse les différences, que c’est dans la tempête que les écarts se creusent, les marchés se gagnent, les talents se dévoilent. Nos clients sont de ces entreprises, et nous sommes fiers de travailler pour eux. Le processus de recours au consulting est devenu encore plus exigeant. Aujourd’hui ce sont les cabinets qui veillent à constamment apporter de la valeur à leur client qui travaillent… et qui travaillent beaucoup. Talisker consulting est plus que jamais présent pour aider ses clients à réussir à faire la différence, car c’est maintenant qu’elle va se faire. La crise est une opportunité de conquête ! Jean Luccioni PDG |
IndiscrétionsPour proposer à ses clients, dans la même logique d'indépendance, un accompagnement sur l'ensemble des phases de leurs projets SI, les associés de Talisker Consulting ont créé une structure dédiée, Manalis Consulting, pour y développer une offre spécifique autour de l'assistance à maîtrise d'ouvrage. Les commandes en ont été confiées à Claire Miermont. |
CarnetIls ont dit : "La prospérité montre les heureux, l'adversité les grands" - Pline le jeuneLe chiffre : Le Marché des SSII est toujours largement sur-capacitaire  Source : Hitech pros Lu pour vous : Less is Moore - Jan 15th 2009 From The Economist print edition "There is strong demand for technologies that do the same for less money, rather than more for the same price." | |||||
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IndiscrétionsPour répondre spécifiquement aux besoins des maîtrises d’ouvrage, Manalis Consulting propose une offre globale qui couvre l’ensemble de leurs activités :
Manalis Consulting est dirigé par Claire Miermont. Claire a débuté sa carrière en 1992 au sein du groupe Dassault, autour des métiers de la maîtrise d’œuvre et de la conduite de projet. Elle a ensuite contribué, à partir de 1995, au développement des activités de conseil en systèmes d’information et ingénierie technique au sein de plusieurs grandes sociétés de services françaises où elle a occupé les fonctions de responsable de business unit puis de directrice associée. Pour en savoir plus : www.talisker-projects.com Contact : Claire Miermont 01.77.37.01.40  retour PerspectivesMissions récentes
retour Zoom sur l'offre En parallèle de la rédaction de son point de vue sur le Lean Management, Talisker Consulting renforce et met en avant certaines composantes de ses offres pour capitaliser sur son expérience sur le sujet. Quelques exemples...
retour CarnetLess is MooreJan 15th 2009 From The Economist print edition There is strong demand for technologies that do the same for less money, rather than more for the same price FOR years, the computer industry has made steady progress by following Moore’s law, derived from an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, now the world’s biggest chipmaker. His original formulation was rather technical, and was based on the number of transistors that could be crammed onto a chip, but it was adopted as a road map by the industry, so that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. In practice, it boils down to the following: the cost of a given amount of computing power falls by half roughly every 18 months; so the amount of computing power available at a particular price doubles over the same period. This has resulted in a geometric increase in the processing power of desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, and so forth. Constant improvements mean that more features can be added to these products each year without increasing the price. A desire to do ever more elaborate things with computers—in particular, to supply and consume growing volumes of information over the internet—kept people and companies upgrading. Each time they bought a new machine, it cost around the same as the previous one, but did a lot more. But now things are changing, partly because the industry is maturing, and partly because of the recession. Suddenly there is much more interest in products that apply the flip side of Moore’s law: instead of providing ever-increasing performance at a particular price, they provide a particular level of performance at an ever-lower price. The most visible manifestation of this trend is the rise of the netbook, or small, low-cost laptop. Netbooks are great for browsing the web on the sofa, or tapping out a report on the plane. They will not run the latest games, and by modern standards have limited storage capacity and processing power. They are, in short, comparable to laptops from two or three years ago. But they are cheap, costing as little as £150 in Britain and $250 in America, and they are flying off the shelves: sales of netbooks increased from 182,000 in 2007 to 11m in 2008, and will reach 21m this year, according to IDC, a market-research firm. For common tasks, such as checking e-mail and shopping online, they are good enough. Many companies, it seems, would also prefer computers to get cheaper rather than more powerful. The recession is hurting the computer industry, albeit not as badly as the bursting of the dotcom bubble did in 2000-01 (see article), but those companies that enable their customers to benefit from the flip side of Moore’s law, and do the same for less, will be best-placed to ride out the storm. A good example of this is virtualisation: using software to divide up a single server computer so that it can do the work of several, and is cheaper to run. The more powerful that machine, the more computers it can replace and the less, in effect, each “virtual” machine costs. The rise of “good enough” computing The “good enough” approach also works with software. Supplying “software as a service”, via the web, as done by Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Google, among others, usually means sacrificing the bells and whistles that are offered by conventional software. Google Docs lacks the fancy features of Microsoft Word, for example. But hardly anyone uses all those features anyway, and Google Docs is free. Once again, many users are happy to eschew higher performance in order to save money. Even Microsoft has cottoned on: the next version of Windows is intended to do the same as the last version, Vista, but to run faster and use fewer resources. If so, it will be the first version of Windows that makes computers run faster than the previous version. That could be bad news for computer-makers, since users will be less inclined to upgrade. But they are less inclined to do so already. Moore’s law has not been repealed, but more people are taking the dividend it provides in cash, rather than processor cycles. retour
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